intrigant
Americannoun
plural
intrigantsnoun
Etymology
Origin of intrigant
1775–85; < French < Italian intrigante, present participle of intrigare to intrigue
Example Sentences
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General von Schleicher was for years the master intrigant and "Field Grey Eminence" of the German Reichswehr.
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Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen.
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Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha.
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Because of the Chancellor-General's reputation as the Fatherland's master intrigant, Germans gave him credit for the next dramatic development�a split in the Fascist Party.
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Thereafter his dynamic shrewdness as a commercial intrigant enabled him to break into the newspaper trust amid the War upheaval and established him upon his present eminence.
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